Wallpapers are a great way to customize your desktop, but they can be an organizational tool as well. Here are a bunch of wallpapers that can actual help you keep a clean, tidy, and more productive desktop.

This may not surprise you, but there aren't a ton of productivity-based wallpapers out there. We decided to make a few to fix that problem and make sure you have plenty of options to choose from. Some of the wallpapers in this set have other versions associated with them and even PSD files you can customize, so keep an eye out for that.

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Time to Clean Up!

Whether your desktop featured a great wallpaper or not, if it's messy it doesn't matter. Now's the time to tidy up your desktop. Here's an annoying song to get you in the cleaning mood.

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How to Use These Wallpapers

Using these wallpapers is easy as they're divided into sections (that are sometimes labeled). You just put your icons in the section you want, or the section designated for them, and you have a neatly organized desktop. You can see this in the example above. The upper-left quadrant has documents, the upper-right has hard drives, the bottom-left has apps, and the bottom-right has folders. If you like this arrangement, the wallpaper is called "Color Quadrants" and is included in this post.

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Striped Aurora

This Striped Aurora wallpaper is just one example of using these stripes for organization. You can download three other examples by following the download link and find information on how to apply this strategy to any of your existing wallpapers. Everything you need is provided.